State of SHA/SHIP

Alexander J. Senetcky
alexander.senetcky@ct.gov

Connecticut State Department of Public Health

Table of contents

  • What is out there?
  • Noteworthy or Interesting
  • The Takeaway

What is out there?

The Methodology

  • I searched the web using combintations of:
    • “STATE_NAME state health assessment”
    • “STATE_NAME state health improvement plan”
    • My classifications are not perfect
    • How I categorized thing changed over time
      • but the highlights remained the same

The Methodology

  • ASTHO has a list of documents from states
    • Not every state was represented and many links were broken

The Methodology

  • Healthy People 2030 had a list of SHIPs
    • Decent for SHIPS - which often lead to finding SHAs - but not always
    • Not every state and not every link was live
    • Not always the latest

The Methodology

  • It wasn’t easy to find everything
    • Some states used their own jargon
    • Some documents only accessible through search engines
    • Websites difficult to navigate - not always a common landing page for SHA/SHIP
    • Tried used an AI agent - it struggled and ultimately wasn’t useful

Mostly Monolithic PDFs

Noteworthy or Interesting

The Good

Louisiana

Louisiana Landing Page

Louisiana

https://ldh.la.gov/bureau-of-planning-performance/shaship

  • Louisiana I think did a really nice job.
  • They did use a paid platform: mySidewalk
  • However, I think regardless of the platform - it was organized well.

Louisiana

https://ldh.la.gov/bureau-of-planning-performance/shaship

  • SHA & SHIP together on a landing page
    • Searchable from Google - it is however buried and somewhat difficult to find navigating through the site naturally
    • The Site in general looks great and you can technically navigate to it from within the site

Louisiana

https://ldh.la.gov/bureau-of-planning-performance/shaship

  • Mixed media
    • Snippets on webpage
    • Downloadable in-depth reports and small one-two pagers
    • “Website Dashboard” - if you want to use it - feels natural to use

The Majority

The Overwhelming

  • Massachusetts - slick visuals and endless combos of reports
    • but the complexity
    • where is the narrative - no really I couldnt find it.

The Box Tickers

  • KPI lists with no context
  • Scorecards

The Broken

TODO - Broken links: DOUBLECHECK - Florida (TODO) - Literally nothing since 2012: DOUBLECHECK - Tennesee? (TODO) - Ohio dashboard - comes from a good place - but so crammed full can’t make heads or tails - just look at that leading deaths dashboard page.

The Takeaway

Where do we stack up?

  • We are in “good” company - we have an enormous, expensive looking pdf - like almost everyone else.
  • There are opportunities here for innovation and cost-savings that could make us leaders in this space.